Racing Club vs Newell´s Old Boys Live Stream, Predictions (May 02)

📏 Form Guide

Racing Club

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Racing Club will want to continue from where they left off last time out with the 1-2 Torneo Apertura success over Defensa y Justicia.

In that match, Racing Club managed 54% possession and 10 attempts at goal with 3 on target. For Racing Club, goals were scored by Maximiliano Salas (72') and Gastón Martirena (87'). On the other side, Defensa y Justicia had 17 shots on goal with 6 on target. Francisco González (54') was the scorer for Defensa y Justicia.

Racing Club haven’t been able to stop scoring goals, netting in one hundred percent of their last 6 matches.

They’ve hit an aggregate of 11 during that period while seeing the number of goals scored against them stand at 5. Regardless, we must now wait to see if that trend will be sustained in this match or not.

Newell´s Old Boys

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Newell´s Old Boys head into the match following on from a 2-0 Torneo Apertura win against Huracán in their most recent match.

In that game, Newell´s Old Boys managed 33% possession and 7 attempts at goal with 3 on target. For Newell´s Old Boys, the goals were scored by Valentino Acuña (43') and Luciano Lollo (81'). For their opponents, Huracan had 4 attempts at goal with 0 on target.

A sequence of effective displays from the Newell´s Old Boys defenders has resulted in their ‘goals against’ tally amounting to 2 from their past 6 fixtures overall. In that time, the number of goals that they have scored themselves is 8.

👥 Head to head

A review of their prior head to head clashes dating back to 24/04/2022 shows us that Racing Club have won 3 of them and Newell´s Old Boys 1, with the tally of drawn games being 2.

A total of 9 goals were scored between them throughout the course of those matches, with 7 for La Academia and 2 being from La Lepra. The average goals per game has been 1.5.

The previous league clash featuring these clubs was Primera División match day 11 on 17/08/2024 when the final score was Newell´s Old Boys 0-1 Racing Club.

That day, Newell´s Old Boys had 50% possession and 14 attempts at goal with 4 of them on target.

Racing Club got 9 shots on goal with 1 on target. Roger Martínez (30') scored.

The match was refereed by Dario Herrera.

📰 Team News: Racing Club

The Racing Club boss Gustavo Costas has no fitness worries to speak of before this game owing to a completely healthy group available for selection.

It looks as if La Academia should make use of the 3-4-2-1 system for the game, utilising Gabriel Arias, Marco Di Cesare, Santiago Sosa, Nazareno Colombo, Facundo Mura, Juan Ignacio Nardoni, Agustin Almendra, Gabriel Rojas, Luciano Vietto, Maximiliano Salas and Adrian Martinez.

📰 Team News: Newell´s Old Boys

Due to a completely healthy group to pick from, the Newell´s Old Boys boss has zero fitness worries whatsoever coming into this game.

There’s a good chance that La Lepra will likely elect for a 4-2-3-1 lineup by sending out Keylor Navas, Alejo Montero, Saúl Salcedo, Víctor Cuesta, Angelo Martino, Tomás Jacob, Ever Banega, Luciano Herrera, Gonzalo Maroni, Mateo Silvetti and Carlos González.

💭 Prediction

We believe that Newell´s Old Boys and Racing Club may both find scoring difficult here.

A scoreless draw looks like a real possibility, but we’ll see what happens. We’re therefore seeing a tight encounter, finishing with a 0-0 draw when all is said and done.

📚 ⚽️ What are the top odds for the game?

Checking on the latest odds for this match in the full-time result market, a victory for Racing Club is best priced at 2.15, a wager on a draw is 3.4 & taking a punt on the winning team to be Newell´s Old Boys gets you 3.5. They’re the best of the prices being offered right now.

Peter Guest, 22:03 01/05/2025